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Common Yellow-sedge

Carex demissa

3,006Records since 2000
JunePeak month
63Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb1
Mar3
Apr2
May211
Jun794
Jul647
Aug459
Sep146
Oct28
Nov8
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland743
2Worcestershire England513
3Perth and Kinross Scotland232
4Argyll and Bute Scotland181
5Pembrokeshire Wales165
6Powys Wales127
7Cumbria England78
8Cornwall England55
9Ceredigion Wales49
10Devon England43
11Norfolk England39
12North Yorkshire England34
13Stirling Scotland31
14Gwynedd Wales29
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland29
1,116 England1,302 Scotland467 Wales44 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 63 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,006
Peak month
June
Counties with records
63
Scientific name
Carex demissa
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
22,670
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
Name with authority
Carex demissa Hornem.
Contributing datasets
41

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1460946 · GBIF 2725414